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🎃 Robin Bobcat 🎃

@robinbobcat.bsky.social

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Fursona of a tired and lonely Gen X guy. He/Him. Bobcat/Squirrel hybrid. Incorrigible punster - do not incorrige.

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🎃 Robin Bobcat 🎃 @robinbobcat.bsky.social · Mar 26

Huh. I could have sworn I'd made a pinned post...

Hi! I'm Robin, a bobcat/squirrel hybrid, the longtime fursona of a Gen-X weirdo.
Hobbies include naps, ttrpgs, and sushi.
he/him

GNU Terry Pratchett

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🎃 Robin Bobcat 🎃 @robinbobcat.bsky.social · 11m

The reboots are mostly about renewing their IP. That's why you'll get a weird little movie every so often with them all shoehorned in. They don't care if it doesn't make a ton of money, so long as they don't lapse into the public domain.

🎃 Robin Bobcat 🎃 @robinbobcat.bsky.social · 18m

I do recall seeing a Cthulhu-style supplement for Bunnies and Burrows a few whiles back.

🎃 Robin Bobcat 🎃 @robinbobcat.bsky.social · 20m

All seasons are spooky if one is a small and delicious bunny.

🎃 Robin Bobcat 🎃 @robinbobcat.bsky.social · 23m

Oooh, extra fluffy skunkie..?

🎃 Robin Bobcat 🎃 @robinbobcat.bsky.social · 25m

The correct response - even if Someone Is Wrong On The Internet - is to bow politely and thank your opponent for their time.

🎃 Robin Bobcat 🎃 @robinbobcat.bsky.social · 40m

.oO(It helps to learn how to lie with authority.)

🎃 Robin Bobcat 🎃 @robinbobcat.bsky.social · 40m

There was an old Shoe comic, in which the characters are bullshitting at Scrabble, to various degrees of eyerolling and "Sure whatever"s. Finally:
"Kradingle? That's not a word!"
"Ahem. Kradingle. (n) A jagged outcropping of rock, usually limestone."

🎃 Robin Bobcat 🎃 @robinbobcat.bsky.social · 45m

My grandfather was an English professor. He would *chortle* when he got a particularly absurd word. Completely different from his usual laugh, it signaled something absolutely amazing was about to hit the table.

🎃 Robin Bobcat 🎃 @robinbobcat.bsky.social · 50m

Beat me to it.

That said, any word used whose meaning can be immediately grasped by a listener of average processing power should be used freely.

"It is a large, good word, and bears repetition." - Adam, "The Diaries of Adam and Eve", by Mark Twain

🎃 Robin Bobcat 🎃 @robinbobcat.bsky.social · 1h

Oooh. Dread, too.

🎃 Robin Bobcat 🎃 @robinbobcat.bsky.social · 1h

Aw...

🎃 Robin Bobcat 🎃 @robinbobcat.bsky.social · 4h

And a petty thug's idea of a mafia don.
He doesn't want to be king. Kings make rules. He wants to *break* rules. To be untouchable by laws or justice.

🎃 Robin Bobcat 🎃 @robinbobcat.bsky.social · 5h

He's never *needed* anything else.
Money? That's not real, that's just how you keep score. How you tell the winners from the losers.

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🎃 Robin Bobcat 🎃 @robinbobcat.bsky.social · 5h

He has this 'heroic' view of things, where 'important' people do big and dramatic things and everyone loves them (unless they're their enemies). So it makes a whole lot of sense he would equate an award given to someone for making the world a better place to going to Heaven.

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🎃 Robin Bobcat 🎃 @robinbobcat.bsky.social · 5h

On the gripping hand, yay synthwave!

🎃 Robin Bobcat 🎃 @robinbobcat.bsky.social · 5h

Wow... that makes a LOT of sense. I wasn't aware that it counted as an Indulgence.

He's always wanted a 'win', something that he could say that he did that nobody else could. But he's botched things at every possible turn.